Member States and includes provisions banning the marketing of prohibited Annex II goods
(including body-worn electric shock devices) at trade fairs and banning the purchasing of
advertising space or advertising time for promotion of such products. It is unknown whether
any non-EU CoE member States currently control or prohibit the trade in such devices.
3.1.1. Promotion of body-worn electric shock devices by companies based in the CoE
A number of companies in Denmark, Germany, Spain and Switzerland, have previously
promoted body-worn electric shock devices. The majority of these companies ceased
promoting such devices by 2015 following discovery and publicising of their activities by the
Omega Research Foundation and Amnesty International [and prior to the introduction of EU
Regulation 2016/2134 in December 2016]. However one Swiss company promoted such
devices until at least April 2016, whilst a German company continued to promote such
products up to November 2017.
Image of “PKI 9360 stun-cuffs for
hands” taken from the PKI
Electronic Intelligence GmbH
website, November 2017.
PKI Electronic Intelligence GmbH (Germany)
The German company PKI Electronic Intelligence GmbH has promoted the PKI 9360 stun
cuff for sale on its website. According to the company material: “PKI 9360 stun-cuffs for
hands find their application when taking a prisoner to the court or hospital. In case he
attempts to escape the stun-cuffs are activated by remote control and transmit an electric
shock of 60.000 Volt. Voltage can be adjusted according to demands of staff. You never saw
an escaping person stop so quickly!”102 The company claimed that the PKI 9360 stun cuffs
have a maximum range of 300 metres.103
On 27 April 2015 in correspondence to the Omega Research Foundation and Amnesty
International regarding the PKI 9360 stun cuffs, the company stated that: “PKI Electronic
Intelligence GmbH has neither manufactured nor sold the products in question, although
these products are displayed on our website. We are still working on a new catalogue, these
items won’t be offered anymore.”104 In subsequent correspondence, on 4 April 2016 the
company stated that they “never produced or distributed this product PKI 9360. If we get an
enquiry for this item we refrain from offering. However, as the new catalogue…is still under
construction we will delete this product within the next days from our old catalogue on our
102
PKI Electronic Intelligence, Stun-Cuffs for foot, Stun-Cuffs for hand, available at: www.pkielectronic.com/products/police-customs-and-military-equipment/stun-cuffs-for-foot-stun-cuffs-for-hand/ (last
accessed 16 November 2017, subsequently removed).
103
PKI Electronic Intelligence, Stun-Cuffs for foot, Stun-Cuffs for hand, available at: www.pkielectronic.com/products/police-customs-and-military-equipment/stun-cuffs-for-foot-stun-cuffs-for-hand/ (last
accessed17 November 2017, subsequently removed).
104
Correspondence from a representative of PKI Electronic Intelligence GmbH, 27 April 2015.
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